Improvement in gas-burner regulators



R. GILL. Gas Regulator. No. 97.627. Patented-Dec 7, 1869.

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RoRERT GILLA'OFNEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters'Patent No. 97,627, dated December 7, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN GAB-BURNER REGULATORS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern. l

Be a known that I, ROBERT GILL, ofthe city, county, and State of New'York, haveinvented a new ar d useful Improvement in Gas-B urner Regulators, of

which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tiou, reference being had to the aecompanying'drawing, forming part of this specification, and in'which Figure 1 represents, on an enlarged scale, a longitudinal section of a gas-burner, with my improvement applied thereto; and a inthe light, as arising from a variation in the pressare of the gas; and

The invention consists in an arrangement, within the burner, or in a chamber connected therewith, centrally or thereabout, over the vent or orifice by which the gas is supplied to the tip of a loose or free disk or plate of considerably larger area than said orifice, and made to opcrate,-in relation to the surface through which said orifice is formed, so that when said disk is raised by the pressure of the gas beneath it, the gas can only be disseminated around the edges of the disk, and between it and the surface it sits down on when closed, for which purpose the disk should be made without .hole orpassage throughit, and be loosely or freely guided at itsedges.

This forms a very simple and eflicient gas-burner regulator, applicable, under a generally-changed posi- 1 tion of the whole, to differently-disposed burners or supply-orifices thereto, andwhich may be used as a gas or fluid-regulator for various purposes or uses;

but it will suffice here to describe the improvement as applied to a gas-burner, having a vertical position,

as shown in the drawing. The burner itself may be of any suitable kind orconstruction.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A represents the tip, and B, the socket-portion of a gas-burner, with a small central supply-vent or orifice, a, made through the upper portion of the socket that is'constructcd-to form a seat or surface, I), for a disk, 0, of considerablylarger area than the orifice a, to sit down upon when closed, the said disk 0 being concentric with the orifice a, and being free or loose to rise and fall under the direction of guides c 0, arranged on the outside of it, so as to dispense with any guidinghole or passage being made through the disk that would interfere with its action, by permitting of the escape of gas-through it; Said disk may be made of .metal or any other suitable material.

l The chamber or space in which said disk plays, should be sufiiciently large to secure a free escape for the gas past or around its'edges, when the same is raised from its seat b, that should be made flat orof like configuration to the disk, as regards its plane or face. I

In the operation of the device, the gas, in passing through the orifice a, only very slightly lifts the disk 0, so as to pass by or around its edges to the tip A,

any material or extensive lifting of said disk being checked by the gas as it is liberated or escapes around the edges of the-disk, superinducing a downward pressc .ure or thrust on the disk, which keeps it balanced after the same has been only slightly raised, and the greater the pressure of the gas, the more contracted will become the area of its escape, or closer the disk be drawn toward its seat b, thus equalizing the supply of gas to p the tip or burner proper.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-- The combination, in a gas-regulator, as applied to a burner, of the outside guides c c, with the disk 0, supply-vent or orifice a, and seat or fixed surface 12, essentially as shown and described.

ROBERT GILL.

Witnesses FRED. Hymns, HENRY PALMER. 

